This post serves the elective theatres, an emergency on‑call rota for theatres and the critical care unit, and facilitates inter‑hospital road and air transfers. Daytime work is supervised by resident consultants. Out‑of‑hours specialty doctors are part of a resident multi‑disciplinary emergency team with a consultant available for telephone advice and will attend any complex cases and provide support if required. Our specialty doctors and consultants support the training of interns and medical students from Swansea and Cardiff University. We use a rolling rota system in which each doctor works through an eight‑week cycle before starting again at week 1. The rota is designed to provide a good work‑life balance. All our specialty doctors work flexibly, helping each other by swapping duties when needed. While the NHS does not require any doctor to work more than an average of 10 sessions per week all our current specialty doctors choose to work a 13‑session week which suits our rota structure. (This comprises an average of 10.7 sessions of direct clinical care, one session of supporting professional/administration activity and 1.25 sessions for prospective cover of colleague's annual & study leave).
This is an opportunity to join a small friendly and welcoming international team of anaesthetists at Withybush General Hospital in West Wales. We provide anaesthetic services for operating lists, a critical care unit, an emergency department, resuscitation and inter‑hospital transfer. Our post would suit international candidates with significant anaesthesia & critical care experience seeking a soft landing in their first post in the UK. It would also appeal to candidates already working in the UK who are seeking to settle in a long‑term non‑consultant career post in a beautiful part of the world. Our department of 11 consultants, one associate specialist and 15 specialty doctors provides anaesthesia in a modern suite of five theatres and a nine‑bed critical care unit that combines high dependency and intensive care. The surgical specialties served are general surgery, orthopaedics and trauma, and gynaecology. The hospital emergency department receives adult emergency medical & surgical admissions and has a paediatric minor injuries unit. We do not have obstetric anaesthesia duties.